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Harry Kane won the 2026 Ballon d'Or in London, the first Englishman since Michael Owen, and the ceremony — Mbappé second, Yamal third, Alexia Putellas taking a third women's award — dominated football feeds all week.

Vivek Ramaswamy's Ohio campaign put $4 million behind an ad featuring the estranged mother of Democratic nominee Amy Acton, and the bipartisan backlash — plus Vance and Trump defending it — is the dominant midterm story.

Real Madrid won 2-1 at the Camp Nou with an Mbappé goal and Yamal's pre-match trash talk backfiring, and the broadcast build-up turned the fixture into a week-long content cycle.

Jalen Williams was stretchered off against the Clippers with a dislocated ankle and fractured fibula, ending his season and sending reaction clips of SGA and the standing ovation everywhere.

Indianapolis dismantled its roster at the deadline, shipping Quenton Nelson to Seattle and DeForest Buckner back to the 49ers for picks.

Lula da Silva beat Flávio Bolsonaro in a razor-thin runoff to win a historic fourth term, with Bolsonaro demanding annulment and the US offering his family visas.

Flamengo were knocked out on penalties by Estudiantes at the Maracanã and filed a protest over Marcos Rojo's eligibility, setting a Palmeiras vs Estudiantes final.

Back-to-back named storms hit the UK — Austen collapsed part of Brighton's West Pier, then Boelo brought flooding, an aircraft off the runway at Birmingham and widespread power cuts.

The modern voice of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck died suddenly at 46, prompting tribute reels of his Looney Tunes roles across animation accounts.

Obama's line that Trump has the White House looking 'like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory' from his Cleveland and Detroit rallies became the week's most-clipped political joke.

Nicki Minaj joined Trump onstage at the Port Huron, Michigan rally, where he told her to stand up and show the crowd her body — the clip and her Air Force One footage spread fast.

Hila Klein revealed Ethan admitted to a six-month affair, and commentary channels are combing old H3 clips for clues while Ned Fulmer piles on.

Israel's first election since October 7 ended with exit polls putting former IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot's bloc ahead of Netanyahu but short of a majority, triggering prediction-market and explainer content.

Trump told a South Carolina rally he phoned Google's Sundar Pichai to rename the Atlantic the 'Trump Ocean' and was turned down, and the clip became a late-night staple.